A Bit Off the Map, and Other Stories is a 1957 collection of eight short stories written by Angus Wilson. The book is Wilson's third collection of short...
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short stories by Daniel Wallace (author) "Off the Map", a song by SoFaygo A Bit Off the Map, and Other Stories, a collection of prose by English author Angus...
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Angus Wilson (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
World on Fire (1980) The Wrong Set (1949) Such Darling Dodos (1950) A Bit Off the Map (1957) Death Dance (selected stories, 1969) The Mulberry Bush (1955)...
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Wilson wrote a short story, "A bit off the map", where he satirized Colin Wilson and the ideas that Wilson had put forth in The Outsider. "The Outsider"...
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1957 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
Wade – The Litmore Snatch Evelyn Waugh – The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Patrick White – Voss Angus Wilson – A Bit Off the Map John Wyndham – The Midwich...
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Bitwise operation (redirect from Bit-shift)
programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits. It...
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SAM Coupé (category Computers designed in the United Kingdom)
The SAM Coupé (pronounced /sæm ku:peɪ/ from its original British English branding) is an 8-bit British home computer manufactured by Miles Gordon Technology...
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ARM architecture family (redirect from Armv8-A)
is the processor mode bits. T (bit 5) is the Thumb state bit. F (bit 6) is the FIQ disable bit. I (bit 7) is the IRQ disable bit. A (bit 8) is the imprecise...
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X86-64 (redirect from 64-bit compatibility mode)
AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit extension of the x86 instruction set. It was announced in 1999 and first available in the AMD Opteron family in 2003...
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Truevision TGA (section Image and color map data)
the 16- and 32-bit formats used 1 and 8 bits respectively for the alpha channel. Color data can be color-mapped, or in direct color or truecolor format...
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Bitwise trie with bitmap (redirect from Array mapped trie)
int off, int len) { long bitMap = node.getBitMap(); if (bitMap == 0) return; long bits = bitMap; while (bits != 0) { long bitPos = bits & -bits; bits ^=...
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ILBM (redirect from InterLeaved BitMap)
BMP.[citation needed] For ILBMs the BMHD (Bit Map HeaDer) chunk and any other 'vital' chunks must appear before the BODY chunk. Any chunks appearing...
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as part of the Integer BASIC ROM in the Apple II computers. It was created because Wozniak needed to manipulate 16-bit pointer data, and the Apple II was...
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Bit manipulation is the act of algorithmically manipulating bits or other pieces of data shorter than a word. Computer programming tasks that require...
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then R(x) is not a multiple of P(x) modulo 2. If follows that the corresponding hash function will map keys with fewer than t bits in common to unique...
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Bug Off! is a single screen fixed shooter for Atari 8-bit computers written by Sparky Starks and published by Adventure International in 1982. QuelleSoft...
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ANTIC (category Atari 8-bit computers)
production. C020577 — CGIA C021737 — KERI The Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 console map the ANTIC chip to the $D4xxhex page. ANTIC provides 15 Read/Write...
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Memory management unit (section Burroughs B5000 series, B6x00/B7x00/B5900/A-series/Unisys MCP systems)
generally have addresses that access the theoretical maximum memory of the computer architecture, 32 or 64 bits. The MMU maps the addresses from each program into...
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MacOS version history (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
needed] 1.↑ The Power Mac G5 had special Jaguar builds. 2.↑ Tiger did not support 64-bit GUI applications, only 64-bit CLI applications. 3.1 2 32-bit (but not...
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Systems with a 3-bit RGB palette use 1 bit for each of the red, green and blue color components. That is, each component is either "on" or "off" with no intermediate...
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Page table (redirect from Pte bit)
mapped into the virtual address space of a process: Attempting to write when the page table has the read-only bit set causes a page fault. This is a normal...
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IOS version history (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
features. It was the first major release of iOS to support 64-bit processors, beginning with the Apple A7 system-on-a-chip (SoC) found in the iPhone 5s. As...
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old-style GrafPorts because a BitMap could never feasibly be so wide as to ever set these bits). The use of these two high bits would come back to haunt...
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use a more elaborate but more efficient bit array approach called bitboards which map bits of a 64-bit word or double word to squares of the board. A full...
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GIF (redirect from Video alternative to the Graphics Interchange Format)
The format can contain up to 8 bits per pixel, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit...
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Each byte (8 bits) of data is sent as 11 bits: 1 start bit 8 bit data/message, least significant bit sent first 1 bit parity 1 stop bit The default is even...
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Phase-shift keying (section Bit error rate)
of bits. Each pattern of bits forms the symbol that is represented by the particular phase. The demodulator, which is designed specifically for the symbol-set...
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Cache placement policies (redirect from Direct mapped cache)
occupy a single cache line. The cache can be framed as a n × 1 column matrix. The set is determined by the index bits derived from the address of the memory...
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ATF (video game) (redirect from A.T.F. (8-bit game))
positions on a world map, the status of weapon systems and the ATF itself. Above the flight computer display is a panel which shows the score and number...
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